They're open access: I was able to read them on the off chance that they'd be interesting.

They show how a few scientists with serious software skills can accelerate the research of hundreds of others, provided those others have a few skills themselves.

The second half of the last point is (obviously) the most important one from Software Carpentry's point of view.
Scientists don't have to understand task automation or version control
in order to analyze the audio data collected by the first team,
or to use the Synapse platform built by the second,
but it undoubtedly helps.